The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1903, Page 1

to be taken f % rom the L'brary_ 5 This Paper not | Call. I{E XCIII—-NO. 150 SAN FRANCISCO. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. QUEER FOLK CHATTER [N THE TREES Hunters] Re;ortDis- covery in Cal- averas. —— Wild Human Family Is Said to Live in the Forest. Efforts Made to Capture the Strange People Prove Unsuceessful. & » s bs of . it ge, ve xpectedly sacks ab home on e e enjoying Fcampere fas down the de has for the past ere he was joine s been a sufferer from a » similarly attired sease, involving the heart Wi r » way incapacitated active part the b prises which he s engagec irsday night he at - e 3 d the dog show and seemed to be in - sual health and spirits and showed nterest in the canine display ng he had made arrange- P b but suddenly was taken & : Shapea Jike the heart, and at once re ik : S SRRy egular family physician was 4 mbs of the tree. while| ummoned and.while Mr. Scott showed - s basket in another tree AN 4 oo, AR Sl 3 e gravated symptoms of his chronic mal 2 o 1 no serious results were anticipated were o Sl Bt v on Monday that it be it he was rapidly growing " x e ation was decided upon and . ks ;. McConnell, Dr. W. 8. Thorne s =S Dr. M. Herzstein were called in, but p i S e ma‘”:‘!“"f efforis w »f no avail, as he had " = - it gone into a comatose state, from " 3 h he never rallied and passed quietly ark sk e | @way shortly after 2 language. | “7 jian, | N ments have been made for or, | the pending alvice from Dr. E s son-in-law, who is on il p Wisconsin, at pres- the | ent in the waters of Puget Sound. Flenry T. Scott, who is in charge at the Irving sigils | Scott home, stated that, if possible, it wds & he peo- | the intention to have the funeral services &t er as hw take place on Friday, but whether from stream r X the res e or from the church he was & “ ¢ tree was nable (o state d hard cooking Irving Murray Scott was born at He- £ e v . any kind were | pron Mills, Baltimore County, Md., De- & 4 Jater | comber 25, 1837. His fater, who was a ’ i Leing man of the Society of Friends, - : fast- | married Miss Elizabeth Leittig of Baiti- . v Of 10Ut | more County, Md., by whom he had 2 eleven children. The elder Scott was a . “ag rhe huater re- | gormer and also ran a grist-miill in con- nex 2 st m was made, but | )t WeS at this mill,"when vet a mere - the place where | P0¥> that Irving“Scott's natural bent for people found that the | Mechanics made itsélf manifest. He 1 saving | Knew all the machinery jn the mill, the | & it of the | Principles of construction and was apt & . taken part of | @nd ready in running it or keeping it in . ft no trace as to | Fepair. € gone. The hunters| This so impressed his father that after 8 a them, but nothing | the boy. who had gone through the lower < d of their whereabouts. | = compieted his three years' . mber ‘of other Indlans | course at Milton Academy, under John . ® t known them, Emerson Lamb, he agreed to bear part of | while they had bee ing In the trees, | his cxpenses while serving apprenticeship talk to them as|as a machinist. 8 ot and the language | 1rying entered as apprentice and served although they dians em the name of erest has been ex- c bhe hunters and a w days from this wr make ar estigation of the | place 5o s to determine what manner of e they are and why they live in the cee, but &5 the country up there is wild and unexplored, it Will be some time be- re & full account of the investigation be had WHITAKER WRIGHT STILL FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM | ASHINGTON, April 28.—In the Uniteq 8 oreme Court the hearing in the extradition case of Whitaker Wright was Legun to-day. The most striking feature of the proceedings in the Supreme Court to-day was the presentation of an affi- davit made by Attorney Fox, represent- ing the British Government, to the ef- fect that the appeal is from a decision in case which had been instituted on March 6, whereas the Britieh Government had formally sought to abandon proceed- ings then begun and had asked for the discharge of Wright from custody under those proceedings. He claimed, therefore, that the court practitally was sitting in & mooted case. ‘. GREAT SHIP BUILDER'S REMARKABLE CAREER IS BROUGHT TO SUDDEN END | Irving M. Scott, One of the Founders of the Uhion | Iron Works, Dies Unexpectedly After an Illness Which Confined Him to His Bed but a Few Days { his time the iron and wood working at the shops of Obed Hussey, Balti- the inventor of the reaping In 1857 he secured a position in iron works of Murray and marine engine bullders. | machine. large Hazelhurs: the Determined to master the business, he | | devoted his spare timé to classes and lec- evenings to mechanical drawing, | one to German and one to general lec- | tures. He soon became =0 proficient that he was transferred to the designing de- partment.and placed in charge of the con- struction of stationary and fire engines. In 1860 his opportunity came and found aim ready. Peter Donahue of S8an Francisco visited | Balitmore, bought a fire engine and asked | for 2 man to go out with him and set it up. Scott was named by the house for the work and came with Mr. Donahue from New York to San Francisco. He set up the engine and did other work in the Donahue foundry, now. known as the Union Iron Works, with such satisfac- tion to his employer that he was given full charge of the plant. | MAKES HIS OWN TERMS. He had come out here under a year's contract and until the year was up he would not accept increased pay. On its termination, however, he was in a posi- | three | tures at the Mechanics’ Institute, giving | SHIPBUILDER WHO AT HIS RES- FAMOUS D SUDD with Dona- he draughting de- Foundry, the t and b In 1863, Union he maintained death one of the most im tablishments on the he Works connection He was Colonel ' Dc later (1863) concern, Booth a ing the From tha considered the master spirit of the lishment in 1575 Scotft, Coast to the how- Iron his ~ver, went back with which until his was made superintendent hue’s retirement he became a partner and on two ycars the 1 Higgins be- time he was estab in Messrs, hers. his younger brother, Henry T. H. Booth as a member succeeded | the firm, which then consisted brge W. Prescott, Irving M., and I ry T. Scott, the three being equal part- The busir then gave empicy- to €% men ners. ss ment In’ 1580 ound the Irving Scott went on a trip world with the late James G. Fair, and while in Europe made a close and exhaustive study of the industui cstablishments of the several countries that he visited, g to the at shipbuilding concerns eturn home the concern s connected was incor- Soon after his with which he w porated under the name of the “Unlon | Iron Works” (1882), and in April, 1583, it began the construction of its pre t plant on 22 acres of ground previously | purchased in the Potrero. | In 1884, at the instance of Irving M. Scott, the concern engaged in shipbuild- ing. In 1866 he went to Washington and, after much persistent effort in the face of strong opposition from the Eastern yards, contract for his first war- ship, the Charleston, which was com- | pleted and accepted in 188. Thén follow- ed under his direction the San Francisco, | secured the | the Olym the monitor Monterey and :‘m October, 1593, the *peerless Oregon,’ | and 1ater the Wisconsin, the Ohlo and | others, fixing forever Irving M. Scott's place as a battleship builder. “He built the Oregon,” is an epitaph to | henor any man. OTHER INTERESTS. Mr. Scott gave some attention bhesides to miring, banking and other enterprises |ana was a trustee or director in several institutions. He was several times pres- | ident of the Mechanics' Institute; also president of the Art Association, regent of the University of California, trustee of Leland Stanford Jr. University and of the ¥ree Library of San Franclsco, besides many other elective and appointive posi- { tions of honor. He was a great reader and an acute and original thinker and his contributions to magazines and reviews upon labor and other industfial subjects attracted much attention and comment, Mr. Scott was a strong Republican and w, £ recognized as one of the leaders of his party in California. Though he was more than once mentioned for the United States Senatorship, he was in no sense a sceker for office. Since 1880 he has been a strong advocate of the establishment of a Government plant for the construction of heavy oranance on this coast and of the adoption of a more complete and ef- ving especial attention | .| New York. SMALLPOX GEAMS ARE REVEALED Councilman Makes? " Public His Dis- | covery. | | Physicians View Micro- Organism Causing | Malady. | Its Development Is Illus-| | trated by Means of a | Stereopticon. fal Dispatch to The Call. | BOST Apri The announcement of the discovery of the cause of smallpox hailed with enthusiastic cheers to- night by one of the largest gatherings of | physicians ever seen in Boston. It was at a meeting of the Byston Society of Medi- | 1 Science, held in the Harvard Medical was | School, and Dr. William C. Councilman, professor of pathology, was proclaimed { the discoverer. When introduced by Dr. Harold C. Er- nest of Harvard Dr. Councilman received an ovation, which he shared with his as- | sistants, Dr. George Burgess Magrath and Dr. Walter Remsen Brinckerhoff, who have been engaged in the work that has | * more than a year with | the co-operation of the Boston Board of | Health, which sicceeded in stamping out | the smallpox evidemic of a year ago. | Dr. Councilman went into the subject iur smallpox and its causes, describing his been carried on f experience in smallpox hospitals while | watching the development of the disease, | finally the discove of the one thing commolt to all of the cases under observa- tion and the development under the mi- croscope of the protozoa, the lowest form | of animal life. | STEREOPTICON SHOWS GERMS. | Dr. Counciiman was greatly aided in de- | | scribing the progress of his work by | | stereopticon views—one of “the most re- J markable series ever pfocured in connec- | | tion with “the «iisease, " Tney carried the subject from the first symptoms to that | stage where the second fever comes. This is the critical period of the patient. | It was then that the investigators ob- | sorved in the pustules that_ had formed | small and structureless bodies. These | bodies were watched as they increased | in ed structure. The homogeneous ma to become structural, to br to small granules and then have the appearance of well de- irregular in shape. "hen 1determinate structures be- in seen fined cycles, mass of came small bodied, like developing pore and this is the beginning of the life his- tory of the creature. It has two distinct cycies of develop- ment, according to Dr. Councilman, and the of lan interesting feature of this is that, iring the first cycle, there is the dan- ger of being infected with vaccinia, but none from smally It is not until the second period when the bodies increase | in size. Then they almost disappear and take on a ring shape. | REACHES DANGEROUS STAGE. The investigators became confident there was sexual differentiation, but they have not yet been able to di The protoz sive It has passed vaccinia is to be the little animal inguish be- a is now in tween the sexes. gre its most a that stage wh only fearcd. Contact with now means smallpox. As a result of his Dr. Councilman announced | that *a calf 1f exposed to smallpox will have vaccinia, but not smallpox.” * This is the official announcement sent out by the Boston Society of Medical Sciences: “It has been determined that smallpox is caused by a micro organism representative of the lowest form of ani- | mal life. This serves to relate the disease with malaria and distinguish it from many other Infectious diseases caused by minute forms of vegetabie life known as bacteria.” form experiments — San Franciscans Sail for Europe. NEW YORK, April 28.—Among the San Franciscans who gafled on the new North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm 11 for Ewurope ln~’n.\ were Mrs. C. A. | Spreckels and daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Truxtun Beale. e Death of a Noted Orator. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., April 25.—Dr. George Dana Boardman, the author, ora- tor and preacher, died here to-day “after a long illness. @ it @ tem of harbor defense for San fective Francisco. Mr. Scott was married in 1863 to Miss Laura Harde of Covington, Ky., two | children, Mrs. Reginald M. Smith and Laurance Irving Scott, were the result of this unfon and with their mother survive him. Mrs. Scott went abroad some {wo months ago and is at present traveling on the Continent with her niece, Miss Effio Brown. His son, with his wife, departed | for Burope early in April and was due to arrive in Epgland last Saturday. Irving Scott! was a speaker of ability and was in frequent requisition. He de. iivered the oratlons at the unveiling of the statues of Francis Scott Key and Starr King erected in Golden Gate Park and at many receptions of notables visit- ing this city. He was a member of the State Prison Board under Governor Stoneman and on Governor Perkins’ staff, with rank of civil engineer. He was a member of the Pacific Union and Burling- ame clubs and of the Lawyers’ Club'of | the: part of the 'Russian-warships. CZAR SENDS WAR MINISTER TO MANCHURIA AND ORDERS - Har SHIPS OF ALL ‘ATIONS i | 1 I Nations Display! i an Eagerness for War. ICTORIA, B. C.,-April - 25.-The Russian demands regarding Ma churia did not come as a su prise to Japan, according to ad- vices received here to-day the steamer Oansa. Japan had beel paring for the crisis and dis Japanese papers from various sectior dicate that Russia had also been makir warlike preparations. Officers of Oansa say that for months large impor- tations of rice have and all export is forbidden. chwang it is reported that three million tacls have been forwarded to.Port Ar- thur to buy provisions’and from Naga- saki comes the news that Russian agents have bought up, 16,000 tons of Cardiff coal there and at Chefoo ail on hand. Large purchases of foodstuffs are also reported. As for. the evacuation of ~Manchuria, dispatches to Japanese papers say it is apparent that Russia had intention of evacuating, although dispatch says that the garrison of Moukden was entrained for Port Arthur, when a sud- den telegram from Port Arthur forbude the departure and the garrison marched back to-its barracks. ; A Peking dispateh of April 11 says the Russian troops in'Manchuria gave some moving when' the - plans were no one sign of changded. -Those stationed at Newchwang were moved a mile further ~ from the town and seem to be settling down in the new location and making ready for hos- tilities. Morcover, says a’dispatch from Peking to .the Jiji, thére’ are.telegrams coming to, Peking from points along the coast’reporting most ‘suspicious action on The big battieships’ coming ‘to reinforce the Russian squadroir “ in® Hastern walers, corsisting -of the-12,700 ton battleship Ret- vizan, the crulsers Palada and Diana and five torpedo boat destroyers, passed Hong- kong on the'13th of April for Port Ar- thur, Another Pcking. dispatch to the Asahi gays that large numbers of soldiers are being moved into Manchuria, garbed in civillan ’ clothes. Another dispatch tells of the cutting of the telegraph lines in | Manchuria by Russian officers and of the cutting of the cable between Newchwang and Chefoo by Ruselans. An official the Tokio Foreign Office interviewed a Japanese paper says by that Viscount Aokai has been constantly shadowed by Russians during his official visits at Peking. This official also told of Russia’s warlike preparations, of the suspicious movements of Russian war vessels in the Gulf of Pechili and of the buying up of foodstuffs by Russian agents. Another sensational dispatch published by Japanese papers is that Japanese hav- ing set fire to the forests at the mouth of the Yalu, Russia dispatched a force of 1400 troops overland to that point. It was intended to send the force, numbering 1000, by the steamer Wuchan, plying be- tween Port Arthur and Taku, but this vessel is British, and pefmission to carry the force was refused. The force was in- creased and sent overland. Russia ob- tained a lease of these forests In 18% on the occasion of the flight of the Korean Emperor to the Russian legation. A dispatch from Kirin says British meérchants have been ordered to leave that place by the Russian authorities avd by | the | LYING OFF N Veadivos ok, SCORE OF NEW GUNBOATS A IATZAXE ¥ | i 8 } | | | \ - | — 5 RUSSIAN WAR MINISTER, OR- | | DERED TO-ORIENT, AND HIS | | FPORARY | | OKIO, - April 28— The Jiji to-day pub- .lishes a dispatch from Pe- king - in “which “its cor- | respondent quoted the Ru sian - Minister having said that the effect of the remonstrance of Japan and other powers would be that statesnien now paramount would as |'|" in""St. Petersburg decide to incorporate the | three provinces of Man- | churia in the Russian em- | | “pire. £ St SRS e RS R R tion.. He has demanded an explanation from the Russian Minister. A Peking dispatch o the Asahi of April 11 says that commissioners have been detailed by the | British, Japanese and United States le- gations at Peking to inquire into the ac- tual state of the evacuation in Man- churia. * | The. majority of the Japanese papers are pressing for vigorous action against Russia but the Nippon advises caution. It says it is out of the question for Japan, in her present financial condition, te Great Britain is evidently.- not di to use force, and Japan had better let the matter pass and turn her attention to Korea. The Nippon concludes by stat- ing that it is unnecessary, if not suicidal, for Japan to think of forcibly ejecting Russia from Manchuria. BRITAIN SENDING WARSHIPS Four Vessels at Honolulu En Route to the Asiatic Station. HONOLULU, ~ April 25.—The ' British warship Amphion and the torpedo hoats Sparrowhawk and Virago have arrived here from Victoria. The vessels will be convoyed to Hongkong by the Amphitrite, which also is in the harbor. On the ar- rival of .these vessels in Asiatic the already powerful fleet which. Great greatly stréengthened. It is learned from British naval officers and sailors that Great Britain contemplates making im- wiense additions to her Asiatic squadron and improving her Asiatic station in many ways. It is the opinion of those well informed in naval affairs that Great Britain's in- they have communicated with the Briiish'| creasifg activity in the Hast is largely Minister at Peking, appealing for protee. due to the policy of Russia. | | waters | Britain maintains 'in the Orient will be | 'Kuropatkin Goes on Significant | Journey. T PE BURG, April 23.—Gen- 1 Kuropatkin, the War Minis- ter, started on a special train to- day for Manchuria. He may go to Japan. A farewell breakfast was given in his honor yesterday at the Chi- | > Legation. | Lieutenant General Saharoff has been | appointed acting War Minister during th absence of General Karopatkin. The lat- | ter, who intends to make a thorough in spection of Manchuria, will be absent | two months and will visit Port Arthur Dalny and . Viadivestok. Although the General’s intention to make the trip was announced piiblicly ago, departure has excited speculation, in view rof recent news from Manchuria. | | | some weeks his The Marine Minister has decided to or- | der the comstruction of ‘twenty gunboats | for the protection of the Russian fron- } tier at the Amur River. ke g £ | WAR VESSELS ASSEMBLING. | Yokohama the Rendezvous for the American Squadron. | LONDON, April 2.—In a dispatch from | Tokio the correspondent “of the Daily Mail says the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Peking told a Japanese journalist that Japanese and Americans came to Man- churia with an object and that Russia’s lattempt to exclude them was an act of seif-defense. The Russian Charge failed | to understand why Japan was not satis- {fled with her acquisitions In Korea and | siretched out ner hand toward Manchu- ria. | American war vessels are assembiing at Yokohama, supposedly in connection with the Manchrulan situation. The Japan |and American Ministers at Peking have | fcrmally warned China against the ac- | ceptance of the Russian demands. Japan | holds proofs that Admiral Alexieff is us- |ing Chinese highwaymen at Mukden to | ereate disorder. In conclusion the rep- | resentative of the Daily Mail says that | the Russian authorities are buying large | avantities ot provisions at Tokio. | A dispatch from Tokio to the, Times says that Japan is about to demand irom | Korea timber cutting privileges on the | headwaters of the Yalu equal to these ai- | ready granted to Russia. Replying to a question in the House of Lords to-day as to whether he would dis- close the dispatches in regard to the | communications reported to have passed | between the Russian and Chinese Govern- | ments, former Secretary Lansdowne said | the question was now engaging the most serous attention of the Government. | There was some doubt regarding the ac- | tual facts of Russia's proposals in regard 1_ Continued on Page 4,7 coln-‘;—t g